Author: Joseph Gostick

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The light pours down from Heaven. Joseph Gostick. [ Christian Service.] This, in the Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others, begins with st. iv. of a piece in Gostick's Tales, Essays and Poems, London, 1848, p. 108, entitled "Light for all." The version “With honest heart" (noted at p. 530, i. under Hölty) is also by him, and is in his Spirit of German Poetry, 1845, p. 139. He d. 1887. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

Tune

George J. Webb (b. Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1803; d. Orange, NJ, 1887) composed WEBB (also known as MORNING LIGHT) on a voyage from England to the United States. The tune was published in The Odeon, a collection of secular music compiled by Webb and Lowell Mason (PHH 96) i…